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Headquarters: Lima, Ohio, USA

A coach builder of professional vehicles & school buses founded as the Garford Motor Truck Company in 1909 and changed its name first to Superior Body Company in 1925 and Superior Coach Company in 1940. As a company it went out of business in 1980, but the name lived on as brands of Accubuilt, Inc. (cars) and Mid Bus (buses).

History

The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge page on 2 November 2016, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Superior Coach is a former body manufacturer of the American automotive industry. Founded in 1909 as the Garford Motor Truck Company, Superior is best known for constructing bodies for professional cars (hearses) and yellow school buses. Following major downturns in both segments in the late 1970s, Superior was liquidated by its parent company in 1980. From 1925 to 1980, the company was based in Lima, Ohio.

After its 1980 closure, the Superior name would live on through several other companies. The manufacturing of school buses would play a part of the formation of Mid Bus (acquired by Collins Industries in 2008) and the professional car operations would remain in Lima as part of Accubuilt, Inc.

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FOCUS leader with Superior Coach Corp. logo. In Ektachrome.
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